i think the taxes in this country **** too! Im gonna do 30 years and retire out of this country, that is my dream!
I must add that Dannyboy, you must live in a county, where they are still strapped for officers. I too, as an officer, was on the bad end of "county" assistance when my girlfriend was threatened with assault on our own doorstep from a very agressive neighbour, and she was 7 months pregnant, whist I was too "at work" doing the same job in London at the time 30 miles away from her. Besides her 999 call to the police in Luton, and the sounds of a disturbance in the background, no county officer had turned up, even after i returend home 3 hours later, and being told of the incident, I did complain the the commisioner of Bedfordshire, as the neighbour did end up punching my girlfriend in the face...........From a "job" point of view and being stuck in Brent looking after the residents there, the locals couldn't even protect a police officers partner.
I must add, with respect Danny_boy, there are more police in the boroughs in the met, puting about 12 cars of two iffcers each per shift.............and the most (politcally putting it) exciting call is nothing better than "suspects on" someone in someone elses property.. The adrenaline flows, as us english know about "ones home is castle" etc. and love nothing better than rushing to "suspects on" with the hope of catching some schlaaaag in someone else's private domain, and pride and joy. As a ****ty burglar is a top arrest. Brent officers will drive like bats out of hell to catch someone burgling.
Also, I have just finhsed dealing with team 999 work for a bit, after 3 years, and I am now in the nwighbourhood team applying Anti Social Behaviour Orders to trouble youths. We have served 12 in Brent against a group that was plauging a particular estate near Neasden.